Marriage Enrichment Retreats: Story of a Quaker Project

By Vera Mace and D. R. Mace

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 17, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066175405

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Vera Mace, D. R. Mace

Marriage Enrichment Retreats

Story of a Quaker Project

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066175405

Table of Contents

About the Maces

THE PLAN

PREMISES FROM EARLIER EXPERIENCES

COMPARISON WITH THERAPY AND ENCOUNTER GROUPS

LAY LEADERSHIP

STRUCTURING THE RETREAT

INTRODUCTION TO THE FRIENDS' EXPERIENCE

THE GROUP IN ACTION

FACILITATING EXERCISES

EVALUATION AND REAFFIRMATION

THE SECOND ROUND

THE PROBLEM OF UNFELT NEED

CONCLUSION

BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING

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David and Vera Mace

Friends General Conference

1520 Race Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102

About the Maces

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David and Vera Mace have spent almost forty years making a vital relationship of their own marriage, and, because of their inherent sense of purpose, consequently have enriched the lives and marriages of innumerable persons in some sixty countries around the world.

David Mace's first degree was in science from the University of London. Earlier family influence led him on to Cambridge University, a degree in theology, and work in a mission church in the slums of London. Vera, already in youth work, joined him after their marriage in the work of the mission church. From that point on theirs was a partnership which focused on counselling persons in trouble. Later, a PhD. in sociology for David and a Masters degree with a thesis on Christian marriage for Vera, moved them into full time marriage guidance work. (Two children, a war causing forced separation for a time, and a pacifist stand by David which also made life more difficult, only strengthened them in their life's purpose.) Before leaving Britain permanently in 1949, they had set up more than one hundred marriage guidance centers and achieved their goal of recognition for the Marriage Guidance Council.

It would be impossible to enumerate specifically here all the activities of teaching, published writing, training seminars and travels the Maces have shared. Theirs has been a life of richly varied experiences and shared responsibilities.

From 1960-67 the Maces served as joint Executive Directors of the American Association of Marriage Counsellors. At present they are members of Summit Friends Meeting in New Jersey, currently living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where David Mace is Professor of Family Sociology at the Behavioral Sciences Center, Bowman Gray School of Medicine. David Mace delivered the 1968 Rufus Jones Lecture, Marriage As Vocation. This pamphlet and the project it presents is an outgrowth of that experience.

"How important is it that Quakers should have good marriages, and what should